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I absolutely LOVE this photo of my husband, but it was taken on a dull, cloudy day, which made the colours of the sky and the ocean quite gray looking. I decided to liven it up a bit by editing the colours in Photoshop and the results are quite pleasing.
To do this yourself, simply follow these easy peasy instructions!
Step 1
Choose the photo you wish to edit and open it up in Photoshop. Go to Image, adjustments and then auto adjust your colour, levels and contrast. If you wish to crop you photo, now is the time to do it, then save it as colour image 1.
You need to make two extra copies of this photo, one where you will change the colour of the sky, and one where you will change the colour of the ocean. Lets do the sky first.
Making sure the photo is open on your screen, go to Image, adjustments, and then select Colour Balance. Adjust the hues to get the desired colour you want for your sky. I went full on here and added 100% more of each, red, blue and magenta, then select OK. Save this file as colour image 2, then close.
Reopen the original photo (colour image 1) and repeat the colour changing process, only this time adding the colours blue, cyan and magenta. (again, I’ve used 100%, but it’s really a matter of simply playing around with the colours until you find the result you desire). Save this file as colour image 3, then close.
Step 2
Open your sky image (colour image 2) and your sea image (colour image 3), then position them on the screen so that you can see both images. NB: you don’t need to see them in full, do not maximise them, just as long as you see a bit of each image. Then from your sidebar, select the move tool and drag the blue image over top of the pink image, then close the other blue image and maximise the screen. Make sure the blue image is position exactly over the pink. Use the move tool to reposition if necessary.
Again, from the sidebar, select the eraser tool and change the brush size to around 180px. Erase the blue sky to reveal the pink. Don’t be too fussy at this stage; it’s OK to go over the lines as long as the sea isn’t touched at all.
Step 3
Leaving this image up on the screen, open the original image (colour image 1), and move it over the current photo. Again making sure it is positioned correctly.
Repeat the eraser step, but ONLY rubbing out the sky and ocean. To ensure you get it all rubbed out and don’t accidentally rub out any essential parts of the picture, try zooming in so that you photo is huge and experiment with brush sizes to find one that is easy to work with.
Step 4
Once you are happy with the end result, go to layer, flatten image and then save your photo.